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Foreign trial data used in 4/5 of approved drugs
FairWarning’s Lea Yu and The New York Times‘ Gardiner Harris drew our attention to a report from the HHS Office…
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America suffers from maternal mortality disparities
RaceWire’s Michelle Chen took the time recently to remind readers that, while we are celebrating the decline of infant and…
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N.C. county’s mental health services overwhelmed
The one million people who live in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County are served by a single 66-bed county mental health…
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Mental health impact of the BP spill multiplies
Reporters are digging deep into the potential public health and toxicity issued posed by the oil that has been pouring…
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Health series tries to reach those often left out
Kate Dailey of Newsweek has teamed up with Public Radio International for a 10-part series, “DIY Checkup: Taking Control of…
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Med school rankings: Social mission vs. U.S. News
A contrarian system for ranking medical schools published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine has already attracted a fair…
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ER visits caused by nonmedical use of opioids double in 5 years
The latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC focuses on the rapid increase of emergency department visits caused…
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Outpatient care can lead to more infections
With a nod to the established dominance of outpatient surgery, NPR health blogger Scott Hensley explores a recent JAMA study…
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New IRS rules reveal hospital conflict disclosures
The new IRS disclosure rules for nonprofit hospitals seemed to promise some interesting revelations, and now that they’re public, the…
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APA’s new policy seeks collaboration with pharma
The Wall Street Journal‘s Shirley Wang looked beyond the American Psychiatric Association’s new conflict of interest guidelines to explore what…